Cloud Monitoring API

Name: Cloud Monitoring API API
Brand: Cloud Monitoring API
Availability: InStock

✓ Official Vendor SpecDeveloper ToolsMonitoring Observabilityoauth232 EndpointsREST

For Agents

Read and write Google Cloud time series data, manage alert policies and notification channels, and configure uptime checks for any HTTP target.

Quickstart

Get started with Cloud Monitoring API in minutes using your preferred integration method.

# Add to your MCP client config (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf)
{
  "jentic": {
    "url": "https://api.jentic.com/mcp",
    "auth": "oauth"
  }
}

# Then ask your agent:
"create an alert policy on google cloud monitoring"

# → Jentic returns the GET /events tool with parameter schema, agent executes.

Capabilities

What an agent can do with Cloud Monitoring API API.

Write custom time series points to Cloud Monitoring via collectdTimeSeries

Manage alert policies that fire on threshold or absence conditions over time series

Manage notification channels including email, SMS, PagerDuty, and webhook targets

Configure uptime checks for HTTP, HTTPS, and TCP endpoints with regional checkers

GET STARTED

Start building with Cloud Monitoring API API

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Use for: List metric descriptors available in my project, Create an alert policy that fires when error rate exceeds 5 percent, Add a notification channel for our PagerDuty service, List the alert policies currently configured under my project

Not supported: Does not handle log entry storage, distributed traces, or grouped error events — use for metrics, alert policies, notification channels, and uptime checks only.

Cloud Monitoring is Google Cloud's observability service for collecting, querying, and alerting on metrics, with support for uptime checks and notification channels. The v3 API exposes time series, metric and monitored resource descriptors, alert policies, notification channels, groups, and uptime check IPs and configs. It pairs with Cloud Logging for full observability and supports Prometheus-compatible queries through monitored projects scoped to a Workspace.

Use Cases

Patterns agents use Cloud Monitoring API API for, with concrete tasks.

★ Production alerting on SLOs

Define alert policies that fire when latency, error rate, or availability metrics breach SLO thresholds, route them through notification channels for email, SMS, PagerDuty, or webhooks, and group related resources so a single policy covers an entire service. Setup typically takes a few hours for a new service.

Create an alertPolicy named api-error-rate that fires when metric.type=run.googleapis.com/request_count with response_code_class=5xx exceeds 5% over 10 minutes for service api-prod

Synthetic uptime monitoring

Configure uptime checks against public HTTP, HTTPS, or TCP endpoints to detect outages from multiple regions, and pair them with alert policies that page on-call when a check fails. The uptimeCheckIps endpoint lists Google's checker addresses so firewalls and WAFs can allowlist them.

Create an uptimeCheckConfig for https://api.example.com/healthz with 60-second period and an alertPolicy that pages PagerDuty when the check fails for 5 minutes

Custom metric ingestion

Write custom metrics to Cloud Monitoring so business KPIs and application internals appear in the same dashboards as infrastructure signals. The collectdTimeSeries endpoint accepts collectd-formatted points and the metric and monitored resource descriptor catalog lets you keep a clean type model for each KPI.

Write a collectdTimeSeries point for metric.type custom.googleapis.com/checkout/orders_per_minute with value 142 against the gce_instance resource with our prod VM ID

Agent integration via Jentic

AI agents acting as on-call assistants can use Cloud Monitoring through Jentic to enumerate alert policies, page on incidents, and adjust uptime checks during incidents without holding the underlying OAuth refresh token in their prompt.

List alertPolicies in projects/acme and disable any whose displayName matches a pattern provided by the on-call runbook for the maintenance window

Key Endpoints

32 endpoints — cloud monitoring is google cloud's observability service for collecting, querying, and alerting on metrics, with support for uptime checks and notification channels.

METHOD

PATH

DESCRIPTION

GET

/v3/uptimeCheckIps

List Google's uptime checker IP ranges

DELETE

/v3/{+name}

Delete a Cloud Monitoring resource

GET

/v3/{+name}/alertPolicies

List alert policies in a project

POST

/v3/{+name}/collectdTimeSeries

Write collectd-formatted time series

GET

/v3/{+name}/groups

List monitored resource groups

GET

/v3/{+name}/metricDescriptors

List metric descriptors

GET

/v3/{+name}/monitoredResourceDescriptors

List monitored resource descriptors

GET

/v3/{+name}/notificationChannelDescriptors

List notification channel descriptors

GET

/v3/uptimeCheckIps

List Google's uptime checker IP ranges

DELETE

/v3/{+name}

Delete a Cloud Monitoring resource

GET

/v3/{+name}/alertPolicies

List alert policies in a project

POST

/v3/{+name}/collectdTimeSeries

Write collectd-formatted time series

GET

/v3/{+name}/groups

List monitored resource groups

Why though Jentic?

Three things that make agents converge on Jentic-routed access.

Credential isolation

Google Cloud OAuth 2.0 client credentials and refresh tokens are stored encrypted in the Jentic vault. Agents receive short-lived bearer tokens scoped to monitoring; the refresh token and client secret never enter the agent's context.

Intent-based discovery

Agents search Jentic by intent such as create alert policy or list uptime checks and Jentic returns the matching Cloud Monitoring operations with input schemas, so the agent does not have to navigate Google Cloud's discovery documents.

Time to first call

Direct integration with Cloud Monitoring takes 1-2 days for OAuth setup, alert policy modelling, and notification channel wiring. Through Jentic the same flows are under an hour: search, load schema, execute.

Related APIs

Alternatives and complements available in the Jentic catalogue.

Complementary

Cloud Logging API

Log entries paired with monitoring metrics for full observability

Use Cloud Logging when working with raw log entries; use Cloud Monitoring for metrics, alerts, and uptime checks

Complementary

Error Reporting API

Aggregated error events that often trigger Cloud Monitoring alert policies

Use Error Reporting for grouped error events; use Cloud Monitoring for the alerting and notification surface around them

Complementary

Cloud Trace API

Distributed traces that complement metrics for latency analysis

Choose Cloud Trace for span-level analysis; use Cloud Monitoring for metric thresholds and alerts

FAQs

Specific to using Cloud Monitoring API API through Jentic.

What authentication does the Cloud Monitoring API use?

The API uses Google OAuth 2.0 with monitoring scopes such as https://www.googleapis.com/auth/monitoring and https://www.googleapis.com/auth/monitoring.write. Through Jentic the OAuth credentials are held in the encrypted vault and the agent only sees a scoped, short-lived bearer token.

Can I create an alert policy from scratch through this API?

Yes. Post a new alertPolicy with a displayName, one or more conditions referencing metric filters, combiner logic, and the notificationChannels to call when the policy fires. The same shape is used to update an existing policy.

What are the rate limits for the Cloud Monitoring API?

Read endpoints (alertPolicies, metricDescriptors, monitoredResourceDescriptors) and write endpoints have separate per-project quotas listed under the Cloud Monitoring service in the Cloud Console. Custom metric write quotas are higher than alert manipulation quotas; respect 429 backoff for ingestion-heavy workloads.

How do I create an uptime check through Jentic?

Search Jentic for create uptime check google cloud, load the uptimeCheckConfigs create operation, and execute with the host, path, and period. Jentic injects the OAuth bearer token so the agent only constructs the check definition.

Is the Cloud Monitoring API free?

Cloud Monitoring includes a free tier for Google Cloud metrics and a generous allowance for custom metrics; usage above that is billed per metric ingested and uptime check executions. See the Operations Suite pricing page for current rates.

Why are there two monitoring versions in the catalog?

v1 is the dashboards-only surface for Cloud Monitoring dashboards. v3 is the main metrics, alerting, and uptime checks API. Use v3 for time series and alert policy work; v1 only when programmatically managing dashboards.